Billy Elliot Segment 1: * The film starts with a close up shot of Billy playing the CD player. This is followed by the song "I was dancing when I was 12; dance myself right up through the roof." As audience, we see the visual images of Billy jumping up and down as though dancing. The fragmented images consist of a variety of close-up shots of Billy jump up the screen. It then pans out to long shots …showed first 75 words of 3908 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3908 total…to show that he is puzzled. However, when Billy asks him "so what do you do?" Debbie replies "he's been made redundant". Billy smothers a smile and realises why he speaks in this way. Irony is presented here to show that Mr Wilkinson is another example of a man who has lost his job and must look for a way back into the world employment despite of his luxurious house. *<Tab/>